1985 Finances and Recommendations
Last year, our services and recommendations have been recognized by both the industries and the consumers. Since our recommendations have been noted by customers, these movies and albums have dramatically oversold our forecasts. This will change our profits to a 1% standard fee per title, even if we have a recommendation. We will refuse to recommend on request or for a fee. We will be more liberal towards cult classics, though.
Movie Recommendations
This year, the movies that we recommend are: Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, St. Elmo's Fire, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Teen Wolf, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Last Dragon, The Care Bears Movie, Clue, Just One of the Guys, and the Legend of Billie Jean.
We forecast:
Universal Pictures: 14 movies-$583 Million Total Gross
TriStar Pictures: 8 movies-$252 Million Total Gross
United Artists: 1 movie-$127 Million Total Gross
Warner Bros.: 19 movies-$537 Million Total Gross
20th Century Fox-14 movies-$293 Million Total Gross
Paramount Pictures-12 movies-$205 Million Total Gross
MGM-13 movies-$140 Million Total Gross
Columbia Pictures -14 movies-$282 Million Total Gross
Atlantic Releasing Corporation- 4 movies-$49 Million Total Gross
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures -8 movies-$113 Million Total Gross
New Line Cinema- 1 movie-$49 Million Total Gross
Orion Pictures- 11 movies-$583 Million Total Gross
Embassy Pictures - 1 movies-$24 Million Total Gross
The Samuel Goldwyn Company- 6 movies-$36 Million Total Gross
Cannon Film Distributors-8 movies-$81 Million Total Gross
Island Alive- 2 movies-$19 Million Total Gross
Crown- 1 movies-$14 Million Total Gross
New World Pictures- 7 movies-$27 Million Total Gross
Cardinal Entertainment- 1 movies-$2 Million Total Gross
Circle Films- 1 movies-$2 Million Total Gross
Skouras Pictures- 1 movies-$2 Million Total Gross
Empire Pictures- 1 movies-$2 Million Total Gross
The total collected by movies (which grossed over $1 million) is $3.420 Billion. Our fees from our services are $34.2 Million.
Recommended TV Shows
Family Ties, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss?, Night Court, Growing Pains
Music Recommendations
For music albums for 1986, we will recommend: Top Gun soundtrack, Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill, Metallica-Master of Puppets, New Kids on the Block, and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Live Alive.
We also need to keep Metallica from traveling on September 27th, 1986. We can claim poor weather conditions at that point.
The estimated units for the remaining best-selling albums for 1986 is 316 Million at the average cost of $9 per album, which should give us a share of 21.38 Million.
Video Game Recommendations
Super Mario Bros. is the best game this year, so we recommend it. For PC, we recommend Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego. This year, we will make $10 Million from our services to the video game industry.
Basketball Draft Recommendations
The Mavericks took our recommendations and jumped to 2nd in the Western Conference (from the original 3rd). They were also 1st in the Midwest Division. Our recommendations for the Mavs this year are (with the best being ^, then *, +, the last good forecast is x). The players that we do not think will sign have #. They can snatch Karl Malone^, Joe Dumars^, Terry Porter+, and Michael Adams+.
C: Patrick Ewing^1, Arvydas Sabonis^#,
SF: Chris Mullin^7 ,
PF: Karl Malone^13, Xavier McDaniel+4, Charles Oakley+9,
SG: Joe Dumars^18,
SF/PF: Detlef Schrempf*8, A. C. Green+23,
PG: Terry Porter+24, Michael Adams+66,
We do not recommend drafting: G-Calvin Duncan#, SG-Aubrey Sherrod#, F: George Montgomery#, C/F: Bobby Lee Hurt#, C: Arvydas Sabonis^#. We do recommend Arvydas Sabonis after he is eligible.
Baseball Draft Recommendations
For the Texas Rangers draft in 1985, we recommend these forecasted high-value players: (Position, Name, estimated pick), (Best=^, 2nd=+, will not sign=*)
C: B.J. Surhoff+1, Mike Stanley+394,
1st: Will Clark +2, Mark Grace+622
OF:Barry Bonds +6, Rafael Palmeiro+22, David Justice+94, Brady Anderson+257,
SS: Barry Larkin ^4, Walt Weiss +11, Gregg Jefferies +20, Joey Cora+23,
LHP: Randy Johnson^36,
RHP: John Smoltz^574, Bobby Thigpen+85, Jeff Brantley+134,
The players we recommend are: 3. Randy Johnson^, 57 John Smoltz^, 83 David Justice+, 109 Jeff Brantley+, 135 Brady Anderson+, 161 Mike Stanley+, 187 Mark Grace+
We do not recommend drafting: Scott Servais*, Tino Martinez*, Deion Sanders*, Kevin Tapani*, Brian Jordan*, Bo Jackson*, Ed Sprague Jr.*, Jim Abbott*
Football Draft Recommendations
The Cowboys again followed our recommendations based on their need. Doing so changed their 1 win into 2 wins in the playoffs. *indicates a projected Hall of Fame player, † indicates a projected Pro Bowl player. U indicates an undrafted player that is likely to be a Pro Bowler.
DE: Bruce Smith † *1, Chris Doleman † *4,
WR: Jerry Rice † *16, Andre Reed* 86, Al Toon † 10, Eddie Brown † 13, Eric Martin† 179, Steve Tasker† 226,
LB: Kevin Greene*113, Duane Bickett † 5, Jack Del Rio †68,
OG: Bill Fralic † 2,
DT: Ray Childress † 3,
OT: Lomas Brown † 6, Jim Lachey † 12,
TE: Ethan Horton † 15, Mark Bavaro † 100, Jay Novacek† 158,
CB: Jerry Gray † 21,
C: Kevin Glover † 34,
QB: Randall Cunningham † 37, Steve Bono † 142, Doug Flutie † 285, Bernie Kosar † 2-1,
P: Dale Hatcher † 77,
DB: Audray McMillian † 84,
K: Ralf Mojsiejenko † 96, Fuad Reveiz † 195
FB: Ron Wolfley † 104,
RB: Herschel Walker † 114,
G: Duval Love † 274
NT: Greg Kragen † U,
S: Eugene Robinson † U
The players we recommend are 17: C: Kevin Glover 44: Jack Del Rio, 76: Mark Bavaro, 103: Ron Wolfley, 114: Herschel Walker 119:Jay Novacek, 144: Eric Martin, 157: Steve Tasker, 178: Duval Love, 184: Doug Flutie 216: Bernie Kosar.